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initrd' tatw @aient @twine J. D. PARROT, OF MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSY, AS'SIGN'OR TO HIM*j I SELF AND HENRY MCGAULEY, OF SAME PLACE. y

Letters Patent No. 93,339, (lated August 3, 1869; antellated July 30, 1869.

IMPRovEMENT IN FILTERS.

The Schedule referred to in thse Letters Patent and making part of the game.

To all whom it may concern Be it knownthat I, J. D. Planner, of Morristown, in the county ofMorris, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tater- Filters; and I do hereby declare thatthc following is rangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described.

The drawing represents a vertical central section of the filter, showing its construction and arrangement.

This filter is designed to be used in an upright position, asrepresented, ordinaxily, but it may be placed on its side where the water is shallow, for taking; the water from near the bottom of the well or cistern.

A is the filtering-vessel, which may be either square or cylindrical, and made of any suitable material, with a central upright partition, B, running from the bottom to near the top, as seen in the drawing.

vThe two compartments, C and D, contain charcoal and sand or-other suitable ltering-material, which rests 011 the perforated bottom E.

Thejower pbrtion of the filtering-vessel may be enlarged, as seen in the drawing.

Une ofthe compartments in the base of the vessel F is perforated, as seen, through which perfor-ations the water enters when the filter is submerged or placed in the water.

The water ascends through the perforated bottom E, into the compartment O, and passesover the par- ,tition vB, as indicated by thearrow, and descends,

through the compartment D, into the pure-Water chamber D.

The pump is attached to the pipe H.

I is the cover to the filter, which is securely fastened down by bolts or otherwise.

The act of pumping creates a vacuum in the pipe,

so that the pressure of the atmosphere forces^the water through the filter. A

Where the water is shallow, or when it is desired to withdraw nearly all the water from a well or cistern, the vessel may be laid on its side.

In this case it would be necessary to :attach the discharge-pipe'H differentlyf from thatshown, but the operation of the filter would bethe same.

This filter is adapte-dto all Situations where itis desired to filter the water, and the advantages which it possesses overthe filters new in use must be'obvious to all.

Iclaini as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patentl The/ Water-filter composed of the case A, having the central partition B and the perforated diaphragm E, arranged as described and shown, to produce the chamber F, having; perforated walls, the filteringchambers C D, and the clear-water chamber G, having the discharge-tube H, as and for the purpose s pecified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 12th day of September, 1868.`

' v J.. D. PARROT.

Witnesses:

ALEXB. DICKERSON, C. V. FREEMAN. 

